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For starters, things got really official with the registration of http://www.thirdwalling.com! We’re still hosted on WordPress (for now) but we’re all pretty excited about the URL.

A few of us are working on some new series that will hopefully help new Game Masters create their first games, as well as scheming with the head of the local chapter of O.G.R.E.s on a DM101 class for the local game shop.

In the meantime, please accept this video someone sent us on Facebook as tribute:

It has been a busy time of Birthdays and Geek stuff! A few of us on the Thirdwalling crew have started playing X-Wing Miniatures on weekends, so look for some painting tips and tutorials soon on that as well!

This weekend the Thirdwalling crew is hitting up GMX in Nashville, Tennessee! It looks like most of us will be moseying around most of the day on Saturday checking out panels and buying swag.

I picked one of these up at Party City a few weeks back and never really did anything with it.

This past weekend I got a bit creative with some craft paint, some cardboard and some paper towels to make some mounts for my D6 Fantasy game. Horses for the humans and elves, and a wolf (made from the dog model in the pack) for some goblin and halfling NPCs.

Last week, we examined some guidelines to using dice towers. In that article, we made the recommendation that users make their own towers rather than springing for the available store bought. While there are quite a few great plans out on a simple web search for making these simple gadgets, once again we will put our money (all $2.00 of it) where our mouths are and show how to create a custom dice tower. This step-by-step tutorial shows how to lay them out and glue them up, and offers suggestions for improving our simple design!

A big part of the Thirdwalling gaming philosophy is breaking down the game into its component pieces, enhancing the key elements of play and discarding the frivolous components. Some upcoming entries will detail the contents of our pack, highlighting how this philosophy has led to a streamlining of the game experience without a lot of extraneous clutter. But for now, our philosophy has had very little need for something as bulky and single-purposed as a dice tower. Now we’ll decide if we were right in casting off this gaming gadget, or is it an indispensable piece of tabletop technology?